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May Quotes by Quentin Crisp
- I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate…
- Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners.…
- Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't…
- If sophistication is a matter of being in control of our primary reactions, we may now be sophisticated. At least we shall be fairly confident…
- If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle